David Grieshammer
David Grieshammer
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2015

Spatial Interaction

a collaborative
interaction
performance

What if the audience had control over the performance? A collaboration between the dj or artist and the audience, blurring the boundaries between roles and hierarchies. An experimental interaction research project with light, sound and movement.­

HOW IT WORKS…

We're utilizing dunnage bags for that installation. By cutting them open we installed small modules consisting of air pressure and gyro sensors, high power LEDs and a Qi-Loader.  Kai hacked a leaf blower with a custom 3D printed adapter to fill the bags.

David Grieshammer
David Grieshammer
David Grieshammer
David Grieshammer

The pillows are connected to Ableton via wireless connections. They emit colorful light by reacting to music or movement like turning, spinning or sitting on it. The Installation induces and enables a playful, explorative and beautiful human-music-machine interaction.

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Impressions from Platine Festival 2016

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Impressions from Schmiede 2019

David Grieshammer
David Grieshammer

Insights

 

If people don't understand the causality of action and effect right away, they tend to either give up or investigatively (ab-)use the pillows.

To tackle this, we need to design more obvious visual links between audio and light, as well as more immediate and distinct feedback for possible interactions.

When it comes to party people and kids, „highly durable“ is not enough. Calling the project Pillowfight didn't help either. We experienced quite a few leaks in the first roll-out, that, although easily repaired, required quite some maintenance on site.

If we want an independent, reliable product, this needs to be fixed. Luckily, there's even more durable versions of the cargo bags, as well as the idea to try Lamzacs, that we are eager to test.

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FINAL THOUGHTS…

Our first rollout shows that there's a lot of potential to this fun little project. We are currently investigating how to improve the hardware to make it a durable, versatile, user-friendly and hackable product.

We also want to run a few more tests in different scenarios. Pillowfights with different people, different sensors and different interactions. If you have any cool ideas, let us know! ;)

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